As this song progresses, it slowly starts to dawn on the listener that this is not your average gang of friends that meets every evening after work but rather a group of gangsters. This is the sort of plot-twist that Ed Furman and Bill
Nash were known for, and while not every song they recorded was a hit they were consistent in their formula - find a quirky song and sell the heck out of it. Written by Lee David and Benton Ley (the pair that wrote "Ellis Island Blues"
and "Gone But Still In My Heart") in 1922, this song seems to have been recorded only this one time - for Columbia in January of 1923. The previous owner of this disc played it nearly to death, but after some thorough massaging it emerges
as listenable once more.
